The Synthesis of Yoga - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Gradations of the Supermind 821
and experience. It does not like the mind arrive at, but discloses
directly both the general and total and the particular truths
of being and consciousness, of spiritual and other sensation and
Ananda and of force and action, — reality and phenomenon and
symbol, actuality and possibility and eventuality, that which
is determined and that which determines, and all with a selfluminous
evidence. It formulates and arranges the relations of
thought and thought, of force and force, of action and action and
of all these with each other and throws them into a convincing
and luminous harmony. It includes the data of sense, but gives
to them another meaning in the light of what is behind them,
and treats them only as outermost indications: the inner truth is
known to a greater sense which it already possesses. And it is not
dependent on them alone even in their own field of objects or
limited by their range. It has a spiritual sense and sensation of its
own and it takes and relates to that the data too of a sixth sense,
the inner mind sense. And it takes also the illuminations and
the living symbols and images familiar to the psychic experience
and relates these too to the truths of the self and spirit.
The spiritual reason takes also the emotions and psychic
sensations, relates them to their spiritual equivalents and imparts
to them the values of the higher consciousness and Ananda
from which they derive and are its modifications in an inferior
nature and it corrects their deformations. It takes similarly the
movements of the vital being and consciousness and relates them
to the movements and imparts to them the significances of the
spiritual life of the self and its power of Tapas. It takes the
physical consciousness, delivers it from its darkness and tamas
of inertia and makes it a responsive recipient and a sensitive
instrument of the supramental light and power and Ananda. It
deals with life and action and knowledge like the mental will and
reason, but not starting from matter, life and sense and their data
and relating to them through the idea the truth of higher things,
but it starts on the contrary from truth of self and spirit and
relates to that through a direct spiritual experience assuming all
other experience as its forms and instruments the things of mind
and soul and life and sense and matter. It commands a far vaster